Worst Victory announcement yet?

[Marcus Caelius]

You remember the good old days of Shogun - the awesome 5 minute victory video. You really felt you had achieved something when that showed up. It stirred the soul. The cut to modern Japan with your statue in pride of place in Tokyo and the techno music - flawless. One of the best experiences in my gaming career.

MTW - that was very disappointing by comparison, but still ok.

RTW - gosh blink and you missed it

M2TW - can't remember - did they have one? Oh yes "Protector of Christendom" and stirring music. It was good for a minute

ETW - this........

So i finally am rewarded for my perseverence and get to the end of 1799 having fulfilled my victory criteria (and enjoyed some good moments on the way) and...

I can't hear it because the lady announcer is simultaneously telling me about some undeveloped port that should be upgraded and then proceeding to list the various options.

The two sound tracks together cause the video and sound on the victory annoucement to be a continuous stutter on my low-performance machine.

OK, rubbish but within normal parameters - i'll just play it again after the lady has shut up and the video for the victory has loaded properly - but NO! can't do that, can I! Must choose to exit game or continue.

So you tell me, was it any good?

Really, TW people, please consider using playtesters next time

[peacemaker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1M4aULZI8

Try that, I dunno if it's the right nation but there's bound to be others on youtube

[pevergreen]

I wouldn't know, I've never finished a campaign in any of the games.

[Tsavong]

So your problem has nothing to do with the victory announcement its just that the advice got in the way. May be you could turn it off next time.

[Marcus Caelius]

yes, matey - that's the problem.

The manual didn't say "in order to enjoy the TW experience you must disable features x,y and z that you may otherwise like to have enabled, and that we include as a default option because we think it helpful"

did it?

it is yet another item in the large category of "Things that don't work properly because CA didn't think about what they were programming or test it afterwards to see how it works"

[pevergreen]

Lets take a common saying and modify it a bit. Well, quite a bit.

Excuse me if i am out of line mods.

"Don't bash a developer until you too have developed."

Go take part in creating a game this vast, have it completely bug free, then come back.